Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Processes – Preparing or treating food having diverse utility
Patent
1995-10-12
1997-01-07
Kepplinger, Esther
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Processes
Preparing or treating food having diverse utility
426496, 426512, 426549, 99430, 99432, 99515, 425364R, 4254031, 425517, A21C 1112
Patent
active
055914705
ABSTRACT:
A method and device for docking a rimmed crust carried on an intermittently moving conveyor is provided. The device has a vertical reciprocating piston positioned above the rimmed crest, a plate supported by the piston, a plurality of pins protruding downwardly from the plate in a predetermined docking pattern, a stripper plate supported from and below the plate wherein the stripper plate has a plurality of holes arranged to allow the pins to penetrate therethrough, resilient springs positioned between the stripper plate and the plate to force the stripper plate and the plate apart, and a controller to operate the piston to move the plate toward the conveyor and to lift the plate away from the conveyor. A method of perforating a plurality a rimmed crust of dough is also provided. The method has the steps of providing a docking station having a pin plate with a multitude of pins, a stripper plate, through which the pins penetrate, resiliently mounted to the carrier plate and the pin plate; positioning the stripper plate above at least one piece of dough having a relatively flat center portion and a circumferential rim such that the stripper plate resides within the circumferential rim; moving the pin plate and pins so that the pins perforate the center portion without perforating the circumferential rim; and retracting the pin plate and pins while maintaining the stripper plate against the dough to prevent retraction of the dough by the pins.
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A.M. Manufacturing Company
Cano Milton I.
Kepplinger Esther
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